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Kangaroo Island is the third largest Island off the Australian Coast

Kangaroo Island is the third largest Island off the Australian Coast. It is approximately 160 km's long and 60 km's wide. Special conditions are unique to Kangaroo Island - there is no public transport or taxis. To see the Island highlights, visitors need to either drive themselves or take a coach or 4WD tour. To travel to and from the Island, visitors can either fly, or take the passenger and vehicle ferry "Sealion 2000" from Cape Jervis to Penneshaw.

Kangaroo Island remains one of Australia’s (indeed the world’s) last unspoilt wilderness areas. Seal Bay is unique in the world as a venue where guests can walk amongst wild seals and view their natural behaviour, including suckling their pups. The Island’s ecology is rare in Australia, due to the natural environment being untouched by the ravages of introduced species which have now become pests on the Australian mainland. Therefore the native bushland and scenery exist as they did hundreds of years ago. Wildflowers in season are magnificent for the flora lovers, and wildlife can be seen in various parts of the Island to give visitors a "one on one" Australian experience.

Weather is generally milder than the mainland, as the surrounding sea tends to keep temperatures more moderate, both in Summer and Winter seasons. April, May and June have traditionally calmer seas, but in the main, tourist highlights can be viewed comfortably for most of the year. Australian animals on Kangaroo Island include kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, possums, goannas, echidnas, pelicans, penguins, sea eagles, glossy black cockatoos, sulphur crested cockatoos, and a variety of cockatiels and grass parrots. There are no crocodiles or dingoes!!! Most of the native animals can be readily seen: however some are nocturnal or notas common as others so are not as easy to view.

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